A BC Wildfire Service official says wildfires the Prince George Fire Centre in 2023 and 2024 burned 10% of the land base, which is more than what was burned in the previous 60 years combined. Neal McLoughlin with BC Wildfire, said last week the province has had record-setting wildfire seasons both this year and last, but a huge proportion of the areas burned are in B.C.’s northeast corner. …BC  has six fire centres, and Prince George is by far the largest at 33.6 million hectares. …”Seventy-five per cent of the total area burned in 2024 was due to fire in Prince George and last year was higher at 80 per cent.” As of Sept. 18, more than 1.05 million hectares burned in 2024. In 2023, 2.84 million hectares burned in BC. “If we subtracted away our Prince George Fire Centre and just looked at the rest of the province, it is fairly, actually normal in terms of area burned.”